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From: t_pascal@oxy.edu (Clarence Regis Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.games.bugs
Subject: Re: larn12.2
Message-ID: <133773@tiger.oxy.edu>
Date: 2 Jan 91 23:13:44 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA  90041
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>>Every time I use the '?' command to get the help screen, the program
>>gives an error message just before the last page of the help screen:
>>
>>Larn - Panic! Signal 11 recieved [SIGSEV]
>>
>>  And if I press the space bar to see the last page, the core is dumped.
>>I know that I should know enought UN*X to know what signal 11 is and
>>where it should occur in the code, but I've just begun this sort of
>>thing, so forgive me.
>
>SIGSEGV is caused by the program reading/writing outside of it's own
>memory.  In the case of help.c, I suggest that its caused by one of the
>following possibilities:
>
>1) the last "page" in the help file doesn't have enough lines; the file has
>    been truncated.  Insure that there are at least 23 lines in the last
>   "page".
>
>    [.....]
>
>I'd appreciate hearing what you find out.  Thanks.
>
>Kevin Routley
>routley@tle.enet.dec.com
>tle.enet.dec.com!routley




Thanks!  I just added more lines to the larn.hlp file and it worked well.
It was so obvious I could kick myself.	Thanks.



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